50 Percent Of Abortions Are Repeat Abortions. Most On Contraception.

“LifeNews.com reports that “Repeat abortions used to account for about 40 percent of all abortions in the United States, but a new study from the Alan Guttmacher Institute shows that figure is on the rise. Now, about half of every abortion done annually is an abortion done on a woman who has had at least one previous abortion.”

“AGI said the typical profile of a woman having a repeat abortion is someone over the age of 30 who already has children and was using contraception at the time of the pregnancy.”

Guttmacher, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, also notes in another report that over 50 percent of aborting women are on contraception before the abortion and about 85 percent knew how to use it.  If there are 1.3 million abortion a year, more than 650,000 babies were aborted due to contraceptive failure.  You have to wonder if contraception promotes abortion more than prevents it. 

Here's what I mean.  There's a numbers game to it.  No pills or condoms works at 100 percent efficiency.  So if you have millions and millions of people engaging regularly in sex while on the pill, or using condoms, chances are a lot of people are going to get pregnant unintentionally. 

When abortion advocates talk about stopping unintended pregnancies by more contraceptive coverage, we need to remember that a large part of the unintended pregnancies are with women who have experienced contraceptive failure.  But then again, that's one of the big reasons for abortion-a back up to contraceptive failure.  So that's an option that's probably not going to work.  It may fuel more risky sex with it's promises of being safe and in the process fuel more abortion. 

What about claims that contraceptive access has reduced teen pregnancy and as a result, driven down abortion rates?  Well, 650,000 abortions due to contraceptive failure aborts that argument.  For all the talk about contraception driving down teen pregnancy, the only thing new that's been added to the mix of educational factors since that rate started going down has been pledges to wait until marriage, abstinence only education, and parental notification laws. 

Critics will say that many break their pledges.  But they kept the pledges long enough to lower the pregnancy rate.  Less sex means less chance of unintended pregnancies. Kids also know they could get pregnant and be required to tell their parents. 

With the high rate of repeat abortions, and they high rate of abortion for contraceptive failure, abortion supporters should not bristle when pro-lifers say abortion is for birth control.  But then again, what we really mean is that abortion is used to prevent birth, not for health reasons that could threaten the mother.  Those exceptions account for less than 5 percent of all abortions.